Israeli Arab: Temple Mount Islam's forever

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By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
September 18, 2005

The Judeo-Christian world's holiest site, Jerusalem?s Temple Mount, will forever remain under Islam's dominion, vowed a venerated Muslim Israeli Arab Friday.

Speaking to some 70,000 supporters in the northern Israel town of Umm el-Fahm, Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raad Salah urged all Muslims to converge on the Temple Mount to defend it against ?Jewish aggression.?

The sea of Israeli citizens appeared united in their hatred of their state, chanting in unison their intention and desire to oppose any Israeli activity at the site.

Salah told the chanting crowd that Israel was laying siege to the Al Aqsa Mosque that occupies the holy site by installing a new security system to ensure Muslims could no longer hurl stones from the top onto Jewish worshipers at the Western Wall below.

Salah also claimed the Jews were at this moment building a subterranean city under the mount.

?We will make every effort to protect the mosque, and we hereby announce the operation of dozens of buses that will bring thousands of people to al-Aqsa every day so they may defend it,? Ynet quoted Salah as saying.

?We will redeem the mosque with blood and fire,? he declared, to roaring cheers from the mob.

Salah's tirade comes close on the heels of a pledge last week by Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar to continue the group's terrorist war against the Jews until ?the flag of Islam is raised over Jerusalem.?

Islam views as an affront renewed Jewish control over the holy city, after the followers of Mohammed conquered and subjugated Jerusalem more than 1,500 years earlier.

Muslims fear the Jews will one day rebuild their temple to the God of Israel, in accordance with biblical prophecies. With that in mind, today's adherents to Islam have broken with their own tradition and with history in claiming the Jews have no connection to the Temple Mount.

The prophets foretell that once the temple is rebuilt, the Messiah will descend and establish his throne on that holy hill. The Muslims have sealed off the Mount's eastern gate (also known as the Golden Gate) in an apparent attempt to deny him entry.

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